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My name is Rob, I am the executive producer of the Clubhouse podcast, and this is going
to get interesting.
But I'm not alone for this particular episode, joining me in the co-host chair is my co-host,
and a man who's got a pocket full of quarters and he's headed to the arcade.
But not just yet, because he's got to do this first, he is Chad Wilkinser.
Next to him is the official fact checker of this show, and a man who boasts that he is
the world record holder for Pong, but we won't say what that record actually is.
You may know him as Fondango, but his mama name is Don Ford, I'm going to call him Don Ford
and welcome Sir, I love Ping Pong.
You love Ping Pong, but not just Pong, because Ping Pong would, you know what, I can't
today.
Once again, I can't.
I blame you.
It's your boy, it's your boy, and rounding out the day is the newest member of the crew,
and a man that if he has his way will own a very special version of Pong this summer,
he is Alex Wilkinser.
I'm already sucking up to the sensational show on the floor.
If you don't know what we're talking about, you should probably go back a little
soon to season eight episode 32.
Whatever we do one of these things, it is to review something and this is no exception.
This is a big one, kids, because put your seatbelts on, Hunter's excited.
Oh, it's Jasper.
Is that Jasper?
Yeah.
Because it's time to talk Ready Player One.
For what's up this whole thing?
Yes, sir.
Well, first of all, me, we got like Levinson and JT and everybody there for the screening.
We went to.
Thank you guys so much for having us out.
And then also Chad was able to see it with the Alamo draft house that they're opening
with Brad and Fawn's PR there also.
Thank you so much guys.
Thank you.
So much crossover going on.
We love all of our vendors for the opportunities that they give us two hours and 20 minutes
long, which is put it out there in front.
It's Spielberg directing material loosely based on the novel by Ernest Klein.
But Klein also co-wrote the screenplay with Zach Penn.
So here's what you need to know.
Everything said, this is mid 21st century, so a little bit in the future.
Here's on a kid named Wade, whose online name is Parzoval, he's played by Ty Sheridan.
And he lives in something called the stacks.
And the stacks are basically RVs that are stacked one on top of the other, hence the name,
because there's so much overpopulation going on and climate change and all these things.
So this is how they live.
And he lives in Columbus, Ohio.
And he lives his entire life in this virtual world called the Oasis.
He goes to school there, most of everything he does is in the Oasis, which is it's literally
its own universe, it is infinite.
And it was created by a guy by the name of Halliday, played by the great Mark Rylands.
Second of three Spielberg films because he wasn't in the post, was he?
No, this is the third of.
Oh, you mean in a row?
In a row.
Okay.
He just buys it.
Not many for an Oscar for that.
Yeah, he won the Oscar for that.
That's right.
He did, didn't he?
Yeah.
Now, five years before our story takes place, Halliday has passed away.
He has no airs.
And he leaves a video that's posthumous that basically says in this world that I've created,
this universe I've created, there are three keys.
If you can find all three keys that unlock a gate that give you an Easter egg, not only
will I give you full control of the Oasis, but you'll get a half a trillion dollars.
This of course drives the entire world into a frenzy.
And people for years and years and years have been trying to find these things, the I-O-I
corporation that's headed by the evil Sorento, played by the great Ben Mendelssohn.
He plays such a good bad guy.
It almost makes you wonder if he's actually playing.
It's kind of like when we talked about Charlie's Theoron and Grinja, the same principle.
So he runs a group of people called the Sixers and they're called that because their avatars
have six numbers on them.
They're all very generic.
There's no customization where everybody else can make their avatar do whatever they want
to.
You can purchase things within the Oasis that give you more power or more armor or better
vehicles and things like that.
So Parzival has a best friend named H and they hang out together in the Oasis.
They've never met outside.
Parzival doesn't have a lot of, it has no real friends outside of the Oasis.
And it's like a lot of people and there's also show and dito who are also his friends.
And then they also, he has this crush on this blogger by the name of Artemis, played
by Olivia Cook.
And at this point nobody's found a key.
Correct.
Nobody's found a single one.
Not yet.
So it's about their journey.
You've probably heard the name Ready Player On Bandit about for years because of the book,
which in the trailer is billed as the holy grail of pop culture, okay.
Because I've read the book and this is where it's going to get interesting.
Now Alex, have you read the book?
I have not.
Okay.
So I'm the only one in this room that's read the book.
So and I read the book because I had heard they were going to make the movie and I'd
heard a lot of things from people that I know online that have said this book is amazing
and it's everything you want from pop culture and being a guy is deeply engraved in pop
culture as I am.
I read the book.
I love it.
It's a really easy read.
I love the book.
But I knew when I finished the book that there's no way in New Jersey that this gets made
properly.
And my personal thing is whenever I see something that's going to be a visual medium,
I know that I'm going to do the book second because there's going to be stuff that doesn't
fit.
Yeah.
And there's an interesting story that I did come across looking at some stuff for the
movie that Spielberg originally approached Gene Wilder.
Yes he did.
To play the Rylands character.
Yes he did.
The alleged story was that Gene Wilder said there's no way that translates.
No thank you.
Which maybe a sign?
Now we get into the nitty gritty of it because personally I have to look at this from
two completely different angles.
And I want to save the I read the book side of me for the second side because I want to
talk about this first as just as a film as a movie going summer film.
From that aspect, this is pure Spielberg.
Yes.
Pure Amblin.
You know, it's visually gorgeous.
Oh yeah.
You know Don and I attended a screening and Alex, should we tell the story?
No it's hold off on that.
We'll hold off on that.
We'll hold off on that.
We'll put a pin in that.
And then you attended a separate screening.
Right.
So now by the time people here this you and I have got are locked and loaded.
Yeah Alex.
So Alex has not yet seen it.
So we have to kind of minefield this just a little bit.
Okay.
As a film, very enjoyable overall for me.
Yeah but and we'll get to that.
Because there's a certain aspect that's going to bridge the movie going side of me to the
book reading side of me.
There is a transition there that we're going to talk about because there's something
that you wrote in your review currently located at www.theclubhousepodcast.com.
That's our website.
That is the perfect bridge between the two.
Because there's a question that I'm going to ask as it pertains to a point you made in
your review.
Again, two hours and twenty minutes long.
Didn't feel like it.
But that's going to be the bridge.
So put a pin in that.
Okay.
Again, visually beautiful.
I am interested from the aspect of the two of you having not no very, very little.
I mean, you know enough about the source material to be dangerous.
I have the book.
I cracked it and I immediately put it down.
I never know.
I never touched the book.
But you, but you'd heard of it beforehand.
No.
Oh really?
No.
No.
From a storytelling standpoint for you gentlemen, how did you feel?
Completely fulfilled.
Okay.
Don.
If I don't know what part of the film you're going to talk about or where that bridge is,
but the first.
No, it's not a part of the film.
It's an observation.
I mean, the observation.
Sorry.
The first half of the film halfway through.
I'm going, I love this film.
I think this is going to get a coveted.
But there's a 10 minute scene which I love which plays tribute to a great classic as
all I'm going to say.
I could say that.
But there got to a point after that where the last third of the film, it was, what's
this?
It was too long.
They did too much of the build up on the build up and the big climax at the end.
They spent too much extra time for action's sake, I thought.
The first half of the film, I love the story.
I love how they're trying.
So mathematically we're missing one sixth of the movie.
We're trying to get, we're trying to get, I was told there'd be no man there.
In the first half of the film, I was really loving it because of the graphics, the story
where they're trying to get the keys and I'm really following this and I really love
it.
I probably wouldn't even look at the watch for an hour if I was, you know, so let me ask
you this from that aspect.
No pun intended.
There are a lot of Easter eggs in this film, not to mention it's coming out Easter weekend
and one of the big things is an Easter egg.
Did you spend a lot of time looking around for stuff, knowing that going in or did you
just kind of just sit back and just kind of let it all happen?
Sit back and let it all happen.
Because there's a lot of things, you know, when I was a kid, two of my favorite movies
are the airplane films because there's funny stuff going on, but when you look around
that everything else that's going on, that's the 20 to 30% of the humor.
That's multi-layered.
So I'm that guy that's always looking for stuff that's not the focus of the frame.
And there is a ton of that in this film.
How many times are you pointing a different direction going, oh my god, oh my god, oh my
god.
And the first car scene chase or the first race, I loved it.
I was really loving it, but then when it got to the build up in Final Comics, it's like
they had action in for action sake, which wasn't needed.
They got too extended, too long, and it just lost me at that point.
That's interesting that you would say it that way because of the way the book is structured.
Okay.
Not know nothing about the book.
No, no, no, absolutely.
Now, and there's going to be a lot of people who go into this film just like me knowing
nothing about the book.
There were there any moments besides the minor spoiler that no one's going to hear because
I'm going to mute it.
That made you go, woo, there was a certain doll.
Well, you could just say yes or no.
Yes, yes.
Okay, good.
Was there a lot of that or was there not enough of that for you?
I thought it was the first half of the film towards the build up.
Yes, I looked good.
Chad, because you saw it more, I mean, you saw it 48 hours later than Don and I did.
Right.
So we've had time to marinate on this, not nearly 40 or more than, no, y'all, y'all,
y'all saw it Tuesday.
Oh, yeah.
So it's 24 hours.
Yeah.
We've had events every night this week, so it's all starting to blur.
I have been chomping at the bit to talk about this.
Okay.
Now you texted me the day before we, we recorded this and you asked my opinion, right?
And I gave you the same exact opinion that I gave everybody else.
I literally copied and pasted my text to everybody that asked me that question late Tuesday
night early Wednesday morning.
Yeah.
I just asked if you were satisfied or disappointed.
And I'll give my reaction here in a moment.
This is the most spielberg feeling, spielberg film that he's done in 20 years.
I will not debate that.
But you're not in before?
There was no for.
You got jokes to take, who's your writer?
Get ready because he starts run five in a year.
I know that's what terrifies me.
No, there's a chance that's four.
You can't tell me anything else.
Or do you like a Lion King one and a half?
I'm just like, is he gonna drag George out of mouth balls for that?
I'm just like, all right, I might help out a little bit, you know, I'm like, you know,
because he's asked me for it.
I mean, I said it tired.
You know what?
We're bearing the lead.
I'm so glad, like I told you, I'm glad that I picked up that book, got through three
pages.
I'm like, if I do this, I'm going to regret it and I know I am because and I didn't
be used to it.
It happened with Jurassic.
I read the book four or five times before that film even got made.
It happened with Forest Gump, which yes, I know is not a spielberg film, but it not
as well be.
But there are things about those books that I'm like, you're not going to put that in the
mood.
Really?
You're not going to put that in the movie?
Now, but I will give you, I know, I know, I know there's tons of stuff.
Now, but I will give you an example of when Spielberg took a book and streamlined it and cut
out an entire subplot and the film benefited from it, which was jaws.
Okay.
The whole Brody's wife and Hooper having an affair thing, which I'm sure some people didn't
even realize was there, but exactly, exactly, exactly my point.
There is no way in heaven or on earth that film would have benefited from that subplot
being there.
And I'm glad it was taken out.
There was even another subplot that was even further in the book on that one, which
was the, what would you call it, contraband that the captain used in the book to lure?
Right.
Yeah.
So, you know, there's examples and good arguments to be made on both sides.
You know, I can't, I can't quantify that because I haven't read, read a player one,
which I'm sure you've just loaded for bear on this.
But from what I got, this is why, this is what it needs to know though.
Yeah.
What I got compared to what I was expecting because again, didn't read it, but new enough
about it like you always say, new enough to be dangerous.
It was everything I love about a film like this.
Okay.
It was pure joy for me.
I could not stop smiling.
I could not stop smiling.
You know, in every little nook and cranny, I'm like, oh my God, there's the battle toads.
Oh my God, there's, there's the Spartans from Halo, which you see in the trailer, so I'm
not really giving anything away.
And just the way that they're implemented into the, even though they're just barely there,
they're a pretty important piece of this whole concept.
Again, it's the little things.
They really are.
That this film is full.
And of course, I'm sure you've been dying from my reaction for the, for a certain scene,
don't spoil it.
I'm not going to spoil it.
I'm not going to spoil it.
I don't know if you caught it, Dawn.
There's a scene where Parzival is getting ready for his date.
Okay.
And there is, well, we'll talk about it off air because it's one of those moments that
honestly I didn't see coming and when it happened, I went, somebody's going to lose their
level of mind.
Not only that, because of what was going on in the back, yes, yes, yes, because that's
what, that was the inspiration for that.
Yeah.
There are so many subtle touches and so many broad strokes.
It's like everything to me was just so well done.
It's like, Spielberg's Mojo has been missing.
Even the ones, even the films that he's done that dealt very heavily in whimsy have been
really heavy handed.
Not all that fun, like BFG, I love that film, I love that film, I love that film.
Now, my wife, I would put it three years in a row, but three out of four films.
My wife had the same, no, I think 2017 got skipped there.
No, 2017 was the post was the post.
That's the one he missed.
Right.
So he had two in 2016, none in 2017, this in 2018, three out of four.
Sorry, I thought you were saying, Mark Rylance was in one in three years.
Now, that's definitely me off too, but see, as far as the BFG goes, my wife did the
same thing you did.
She grew up reading that book and loving it.
That was her favorite book of all time.
And when she saw that, she says, that's not at all what I was hoping for.
I'm not saying it was a bad film, but you got to remember, that came out the same summer
Pete's Dragon came out and Pete's Dragon gave me the rush that BFG didn't.
Sorry, I'm stretching, I'm getting ready.
I know, I know you're getting ready to swing for the fences here, but I loved everything
about it.
I can't wait to see it again.
Are we ready?
Go ahead.
So Don says something in his review, currently located at www.clubhousepacas.com, which
is our website, as it pertains to the runtime, and he already talked about that.
I don't know if the pacing for me was okay because I'd read the book.
See I didn't look at my watch at all for a couple of reasons.
One, I could dictate where we were in the story because I'd read the book.
Two, at this particular screening, they've literally focused on the words, your phone
can't even be an airplane mode, it's got to be off.
So I had my phone off, and as you know, I own a smartwatch that when I tilt my wrist,
it's not a bright light, but it does light up.
So in that case, plus wearing a short-leafed sleeve shirt, I actually took my watch off
and put it face down on my leg.
So you were completely powerless.
Completely.
And at no point did I even nudge Don and ask him what time it was.
Okay.
Because Don didn't watch.
I thought it was because Don can't tell time.
So from a pacing standpoint, that's your boy.
Oh, it's awesome.
So from a pacing standpoint, I can't speak to that because I knew where we were and
where we were going, but even then, you didn't feel the urge to find out, regardless
of that you knew what was planned out in front of you.
Okay.
That being said, what is one thing that I have told all of you as we headed towards this
film?
Put that down and get away.
Well, no, there's that.
But don't put the knives away.
I said 80% of the footage I have seen from this film is not in the book.
True.
That number's higher.
Wusah, Wusah.
Within the first 10 minutes, I was already shaking my head.
Really?
Because part of the brilliance of this novel is the first, what could have been the first
20 to 25 minutes could have been the setup.
There's so much, there's characters, they completely change.
The character played by TJ Miller, Iraq, and I don't want to give any spoilers or way.
They completely redid that character, which that character and his story arc is a very
important part of the novel.
I didn't enjoy that character though, just for what they did.
Well, TJ Miller's TJ Miller.
I can listen to that guy read the phone book, but the fact that he lives in Columbus sent
me to a dark place because he lives in Oklahoma City.
And his journey from Oklahoma City to Columbus is a huge part of the story.
And there's a whole huge subplot that they not only removed, but stuck a different character
in it and didn't two minutes.
Oxfayne office off air because it's all spoilers.
It got to the point where it almost completely took me out of it.
The scene you see in the club and they go on their quote-unquote date, there's so much
more to that scene that they completely changed it, completely.
There's characters in this thing that aren't even in the book.
Major pivotal characters are in this film that are not not even represented in the book.
They're completely new men.
And there's no real reason for the changes they made.
There's just not.
Are these are characters that exist in the universe of this book?
No!
No! They don't even exist either way!
No, no, no, I'm saying they were created for the story.
They're not licensed characters from other...
No, okay, okay.
I didn't care about that because that I would get.
That was going to be what it's going to be.
Well, but there's also major characters that are used in this that are almost completely
unmentioned in the book.
But because it's Warner Brothers, we're going to go this way with it.
And you know what I'm talking about.
And it frustrates me because there's so much this has to happen for this to happen that
didn't happen, but the end result thing still happened.
Which I was like, come on, man.
There's now the guy in front of me at the screening, we went to, he and I had both read
the book.
And there were two plot points where he's like, if this isn't here, I'm going to lose
my cool.
And I want to see how they deal with this.
And was that there?
The first one was represented, but not properly.
And when it happened, he actually turned around and we both looked and he just kind of went,
well, there it is.
Because the impact of it in the book is huge.
And it plays, it still plays a huge role during the climax of the film.
Okay, I know what you're talking about.
But the way we get there is completely different.
Yeah, I know.
The structure of the contest is completely different.
Yeah, you did explain that to me.
As in the book, the three keys open three different gates inside the gate is a challenge
that you had to get through to get the next clue for the next key.
And it was, no, here you go.
Have a nice day.
Got him coming.
Now question, for example, one scene we're going to edit out.
I loved it.
I agree, but that's nowhere in the book at all.
You're kidding.
Nope.
So that completely different.
Nope.
That classic film is not even mentioned.
Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, because here, one thing
I've ever heard Rob do, ever, in a film, and how many films have we seen to get hundreds?
Together.
Hundreds.
Together.
I've never heard him go, oh dear, oh no, because when that scene hits, he's like, oh, I love
that sequence.
Don't get me wrong.
I thought that sequence was done real.
Yeah, so do I.
But he's just going, oh dear, oh no, oh no, oh dear, but it's the same reaction I had
in Alien Covenant with Fastbender Ghost.
Take a look.
Same exact reaction I had.
No?
No.
No, no, no.
He's behind.
No.
I mean I love the opposite.
I mean I loved it.
Don't get me wrong.
That's why I'm saying I have to review this from two completely different angles.
And for me, not knowing anything, I really loved through that scene.
I was the first half.
No, it was great.
And it all works itself out.
But my expectation if you're going to take on a book like this, really what they should
have done is either done it as a Netflix series or done it on stars because then you
could have done 10 episodes where you could have told the whole story and it would have
been more awesome.
I'm making a two or three part movie, you know, I mean, I don't know if I would go that
far with it because it's the kind of story that you want to tell all at one time.
But if you did it as a Netflix series or something on stars where you did it over a
three month period, you wouldn't have to wait another two years because of the way that
story structured.
You really have to keep moving.
You know, they got to keep it moving.
They did it with the Hobbit.
Yeah, they did it with the Hobbit where they do it.
I just don't know because here's the thing, it's hard to say because you guys haven't
read the book.
When you read the book, you'll understand what I'm talking, especially the first and
third challenges.
I can't read well.
Well, there's an audio book.
Okay, okay.
That's the one I have cute.
I'm not troubled.
Pay attention too.
So I'm really screwed.
But go ahead.
So if you haven't read the book, don't, don't because your expectations will not be
net.
I'm just going to say it clear.
From the standpoint of just watching the film, I thought it was beautiful.
I thought it was, it's a really good down.
There's also the ending of the book in the middle of the movie.
What?
You heard me?
You're definitely going to have to explain that.
The ending of the book is in the middle of the movie.
All right.
It's just like they put plot elements into, and they did the shell game with it.
Okay.
Now, where's the, where's the, where's the Queen of Diamonds?
Do you, do you think there's a distinct part of that though so that people who have read
the book can't just say, I know what's coming here.
I know what's coming here.
And it's a, we'll call it based on your reaction.
I'm going to use the term failed, but I'm not calling the movie a failure.
But based on your reaction, who loves the book, and I do, if it was a failed attempt
to throw you off the scent or someone like you.
No, because they showed it in the trailer.
They show that part in the trailer.
But my point being is is from the, so I knew, I knew where it was going to happen going
in.
Oh.
So it wasn't even like they tried to throw me a curveball.
When I saw that in the trailer, I've even said it.
I've had this conversation with many people.
That's the ending of the book, and it's going to be in the middle of the movie.
See the, it's going to be in the middle of the movie part, I did.
I knew exactly where it was based on the dialogue, which is not the dialogue from the book.
Gotcha.
So basically, the only things that the film and the book have in common is there's three
keys, fight an egg, and that's about it.
And the title.
There are certain, well, there are certain elements.
Like I said, they should usually, they should use the term loosely based, because that's
what it is.
It's loosely based on Ernest Klein's novel.
And the fact that he co-wrote the script is even more perplexing to me.
He must have been okay with it otherwise I don't think he would have signed off.
That Warner Bros.
Check had to be huge because I, his follow a book I won't read because I've heard it's
just not good.
It's, it's the last Starfighter called our model.
Yeah.
Same basic premise.
Okay.
And see that's another thing to me.
Remember when I told you there's one thing that has to be in this movie, because the
way the Oasis works in the book is you have to do a voice print match to log yourself
in.
His voice print match is the opening narrative from the video game in the last Starfighter.
Greetings Starfighter.
Yeah.
Okay, yeah.
That was one of the things that caught me right away.
I'm like, all right, you know, have me.
I'm going to read this whole book.
Like I'm in.
Let's go.
I'm like, if that's not in the movie, that's going to be a travesty of modern history.
And it's not.
Hmm.
Don't that you?
You have some vibrate.
Okay.
I'm going to say hear it.
So again, I have to look at it from two different aspects.
From the aspect of a movie goer, I, I, it's enjoyable, because the words I sent to you
were enjoyable, deviates a lot from the source of material.
To the point where I was like, because my, again, we dive right into the pool.
It's high.
I'm part of it.
This is where I live.
Whoa.
Slow your roll a little bit speed, racer.
They did.
No, no pun intended.
I was wondering about that.
They cut to the chase almost immediately.
So I was wondering about that.
And I was like, come on, man, like set this universe up.
You got two and a half hours to do it.
You could have, you could have made it two and a half and taken ten minutes and showed
him going to school and not wanting to be there and, and dealing with the different
people he deals with.
It just, it, it hurt me because there's so much cool in this novel.
It fell short for me from that standpoint.
So listen, learn boys and girls.
Alex was right.
Don't read it before you see it.
Well, I read the book before I met Alex, so he can't take care of it.
Fair enough.
Fair enough.
But I, I have said that repeatedly.
And the one thing I kept saying over and over again was, I think Rob's going to hate
this just based on how much he loves the book.
And I feel like my reaction is going to be almost exactly like Chad's, where I'm going
to love the movie for what it is because I have nothing to, I'll have anything to say.
I will tell you this.
Before the screening that Don and I went to, the Rotten Tomatoes rating was 84%.
In 48 hours, it has dropped 7%.
Really?
And it's in the high 70, 77% as we record this.
And in earlier the week, it's actually at 160 reviews.
Yeah, I wonder how much of that, because there is some serious backlash based on the
fanfare that this novel has.
How much is, oh, I'm not denying that.
But how much of the negative reviews are based solely on the movie or based on the negative
interpretation.
And that's why I really had to, I had to say, I can't, I can't review this as a fanboy
because it would be unfair to the film.
I have to review it two different ways.
I have to look at it from the, from, from a, a student of film.
And then I can also, I can still look at it from the fanboy point of view, but I have
to have that balance there because this is by no means a bad film.
It is by no means a failed bit.
It just isn't what I want it, I was hoping it would be.
But I can't give it a bad rating because I'm not one of those guys.
I'm not one of those people that pooped all over the last Jedi because it wasn't what
I wanted it to be.
It was everything I wanted to be and I was fine with it.
Same.
I, I can't say that I wouldn't recommend this film because again, I enjoyed this film
very much.
I just feel that as someone who knows the source material, it falls short.
I'm ready to put, uh, final analysis, we're in, we're in, we're in minute 34.
Good night.
Yeah.
Don, anything else you want to add?
No.
Okay.
Here's how we do the final analysis on the show.
That's just like, I am staying as far away from this as possible, right?
So the last time I see this emotional was that, uh, Moses film we saw or whatever it is.
That's the picture.
I don't know about that.
He was.
No, that was much worse than that.
Yes.
That was a lot worse.
That was much worse.
This is far like me with the, the three cool.
We're going to ask up to two questions.
Question number one, it would be, would we see this film again?
If the answers know that we're done here, but if the answer is yes, then it's how far
are we willing to go to do so?
And from the best of the best of the worst of the best, here's the rankings.
Full price at the theater and Alex and I are going to go to, I am going to go again.
I'm just going to tell you a front because Alex and I are going on Sunday, but full price
at it.
Thank you, sir.
Full price at a theater down to a twilight showing down to a matinee down to early morning
on a weekend, down to second one of the dollar theater, down to leaving your house and getting
it from red box, down to streaming on Netflix, down to just getting on a cable.
Don, I'd like to start with you if you don't mind.
Would you see Ready Player winning then?
Yeah, I'd see it.
How far are you willing to go?
Well, like I said, it was kind of that.
I love the first half.
It's about coveted for me, but then when it just extended the in plot and all that
in the last half.
The wheel's kind of fell off for you.
I'm saying matinee showing at theaters.
Chad.
Yes.
And whatever it took.
Sorry.
Are you going all the way with this?
I'll go all the way with it.
I want to take my kid.
I want to take people I went to high school with because I know all the references that
we're all going to get.
It's all going to be like a great inside joke because we, you know, that's, it's pretty
much our will.
I got a question.
Will they do this in 3D?
I want to say that they're ready.
They do have 3D show.
Yeah.
I think 3D may enhance this.
I will tell you this much.
I will see it again.
Because again, Alex and I are going on Monday.
We're going to a matinee in the Dolby at miss that would be this, this, for me, is going
to be the way to see this.
If you have, I didn't realize and the theater we're going to, I didn't even, like Dolby
at miss is getting bigger and bigger because where we're going is not North Park.
And for the record, I don't tell many people where this is because I want it to myself.
We're going to Firewell.
Like I'm saying it.
I'll say it.
I said it.
But more and more theaters are adding what they're, it's now called Dolby cinema versus
Dolby atmosphere.
The same thing.
Well, there was a thing.
I think this will be right.
This will be something that I think will, I'm not saying it's going to make the film better,
but I'm looking forward to seeing it in this atmosphere.
No point intended.
They had some new presentation, some new projection system that is the only of its kind
in the country at the new Alamo.
Oh, really?
That's courtesy of Sony.
Sony projection.
Nice.
And they said they're the only one in the country.
The only thing.
Did you guys saw it?
Yes.
Oh, okay.
And it was gorgeous.
I just, I'll be interested to see after a second viewing how I feel.
I know it's not going to change the story, but you'll be able to pick out a few things
that you miss.
No, it's Spielberg.
It's Ernest Klein.
It's Ready Player One.
Throwing this whole thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we got to take J.T.
Elevinson and everybody at the Alamo for Chad with this.
And fun.
And fun for our friends.
Yes.
I mean, thank you guys for giving us the opportunity.
I also want to, again, thank our vendors because they want us to give our honest opinions
on stuff.
They don't want us to blow smoke.
And that's one of the things that I respect most about all of our vendors.
Is they want us to be honest because the studios want us to be honest.
Exactly.
That's part of the reason we do this because we want to help the empire make the best possible
decisions they can make for their entertainment dollar.
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